AI Engineer

AI Engineer should be judged by owned outcomes, not keyword count.

AI-assisted summary of published DOU and Djinni analytics

Salary from $1,410 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Salary to $4,887 Posted estimate · last 3 months
Jobs 390 Last 3 months
Applications per job 59.5 JobNote category match
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Published signal

Market-wide
27.6 DOU responses per job · June
16 Djinni applications per job · Q1

Hiring Define the outcome, scope, and seniority before screening tools or titles.

Candidate Show what you owned, what changed, and the evidence.

Data Market-wide context only; neither figure is specific to AI Engineer. Use the JobNote number above for the role.

Most wanted skills

Counts of active jobs now and salaries.

Python 123 $2975–$4711 NLP 44 $3986–$5359 AWS 40 $3654–$5307 Machine Learning 38 $3729–$5540 Generative AI 36 $2161–$4871 AI 33 $2446–$3645 Azure 29 $2755–$4719 RAG 28 $3251–$5057 Data Generation 26 $3456–$5698 MLOps 25 $4631–$6241 Engineering 24 $1775–$3769 PyTorch 23 $2862–$5350 API 22 $2437–$3854

Where to hire

Sources

  1. Ukraine tech job market — first half of 2026 Published signal ·
  2. Djinni market analytics — Q1 2026 Published signal ·